{"id":4156,"date":"2020-07-10T17:19:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T00:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2020-07-10T17:19:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T00:19:06","slug":"melodious-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/07\/10\/melodious-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Melodious Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Erik sat silently in the small attic, fatigued, and his legs aching from being crunched together in the confined space. His father had told him to stay quietly hidden until the birds chirped.<\/p>\n<p>Before the gunshot, his mother screamed. His father yelled a profanity, then he heard another gunshot and muffled his cries.<\/p>\n<p>As Erik awakened, the birds sang. He slowly opened the creaking door and went downstairs.<\/p>\n<p>In the kitchen, his parents bloodied bodies laid on the floor and a Nazi soldier stood against the wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIch habe gewartet.\u201d I\u2019ve been waiting. <\/p>\n<p>A gun was aimed at Erik\u2019s head.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik sat silently in the small attic, fatigued, and his legs aching from being crunched together in the confined space. His father had told him to stay quietly hidden until the birds chirped. Before the gunshot, his mother screamed. His father yelled a profanity, then he heard another gunshot and muffled his cries. As Erik [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[546,1180,6801,7262,6639,1350,3309,5382,41,656,780,1097,2837,5521,73,7878,649,9220,2166,25,138],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-attic","tag-birds","tag-bodies","tag-cries","tag-downstairs","tag-father","tag-floor","tag-german","tag-guest-contributor","tag-gun","tag-gunshot","tag-kitchen","tag-legs","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-mother","tag-nazi","tag-parents","tag-profanity","tag-soldier","tag-space","tag-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}